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8505. TRAVEL, Advice as to.—[continued].

To pass once along a public road through a country, and in one direction
only, to put up at its tavern, and get into
conversation with the idle, drunken individuals
who pass their time lounging in these taverns,
is not the way to know a country, its inhabitants,
or manners.—
To Professor Ebeling. Ford ed., vii, 45.
(1795)